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More art chicken news. Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen is taking his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project to Detroit. Vanmechelen has spent the last 20 years breeding chickens with other chickens to create a super breed. Now that he’s in Detroit, which is plagued by poverty, he’s breeding his 20th-generation cosmopolitan chicken with an industrial hen so it can produce eggs at Avenue Urban Farm. [The New York Times]

Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that designer Shigetaka Kurita’s original 176 emojis will be added to its collection. [Hyperallergic]

An interview with David Kordansky of David Kordansky Gallery. TL;DR version: Loves his job. Conceptual art was a hangover. Collectors are less willing to take risks. L.A. is special, though, because the people are more open. [artnet News]

Josh Baer sure thinks highly of the TEFAF fair. From his latest newsletter, “How about the ambience of TEFAF at the Park Avenue Armory – if the ADAA doesnt step up their game this winter before TEFAF’s cont/modern fair in the spring they may look a bit silly?” [Baer Faxt]

In honor of Halloween Michael Jackson in a dance rehearsal for Thriller is making the rounds on Facebook and YouTube. [YouTube]

It’s hard to imagine a more art boring fair than this year’s Armory. Looking back at yesterday’s photos there’s virtually nothing to say about any of it. The fair is filled with generic art market standards: neon, monochromes, mirrors. If you’re looking for an art genre, the boilerplate version of it is on view here. At least last year’s iteration was bad enough to warrant ridicule. This one will be instantly forgotten.

Zach Feuer <3s Joel Mesler of Untitled. After launching a space together in Hudson last year, these two gallerists are now moving into a 3,500 square foot loft space (319 Grand Street) in the LES. Feuer will leave his gallery in Chelsea. “I’ve been in Chelsea for 15 years and I kinda wanted a change.” Feuer said. “I have a better time when I see shows on the Lower East Side, and I don’t mean that as a knock on Chelsea in any way.” Sure, who would see that as a knock? [Artnews]

David Chipperfield has been picked to renovate the southwest wing of contemporary and modern art. That means more space for the contemporary collection (which will have to sublet a place at the Breuer Building) and twice as much Roof Garden. Get ready for the Met’s massive 2020 roof party! [Observer]

More on NYC’s ferret vote: Earlier this week the city decided not to overturn its 16 year ban on keeping ferrets as pets. But of the 10 members voting five abstained. Why? Bruce C. Vladeck abstained because he decided he didn’t care about the subject. Other members abstained because they were worried about public health issues. Anyway, apparently hedgehogs are also banned pets in NYC. The next battleground? [The New York Times]

The TEFAF Art Market Report is out. Let me guess: the art market grew? Yes, indeed. The interesting tidbit here: Sales made at art fairs account for 40 percent of all dealer sales in 2014. The fairs are here to stay. [TEFAF]

The best analysis of the TEFAF report, which has not yet been released in full, comes predictably from Marion Maneker. “The biggest issue is that McAndrew is simultaneously claiming a 7% rise in Euro terms (with a congruent 6% rise in transaction volume) and a 20% fall in Dollar terms” Also, there’s this: “Here’s another troubling statistic from the report. McAndrew says Contemporary and Modern categories account for 76% of all sales. Contemporary is just a hair’s breadth from becoming the majority of the market, McAndrew claims. That would be a landmark (and possibly unsustainable) event.” [Art Market Monitor]

Josh Baer on the ADAA art fair: “A major exhibitor who brings a diverse group of major works each year explained why the fair has turned into ‘theme’ shows and one person booths, we think to the overall detriment to the fair. As there is an application process for the coveted booths all dealers must submit early on a plan for their exhibition – they can’t just say ‘trust us to bring great things as you know our program,’ instead they must come up with forced artificial ideas. We think the organizers should hit the reset button on their strategy.” [BaerFaxt]

Last week was a blur. We ran around to the Armory Show, Independent, Moving Image, Spring/Break, and the ADAA Art Show, all in order to bring you a bevy of slideshows, reports, and a “We Went To.” We’re proud of our coverage, and hope you’ll like reading it, too. Enjoy.

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld created a supermarket for supermodels at the Grand Palais in Paris. The food was not for eatin’, so Karl “nobody wants curvy models” Lagerfeld can still keep his reputation intact. [Gawker]

A job opening for an associate curator of contemporary art at the Whitney has opened up. Sweet. [The Whitney]

This year the Whitney Biennial has one work at the site of the museum’s future home. Along the Hudson River you’ll find Tony Tasset’s shipping-container-looking monument containing the names of 392,485 artists. [Artnet]

Kenneth Cole has created a Google Glass app for narcissistic do-gooders. The app encourages simple acts of kindness (buy a coffee for a stranger, send someone flowers) and then photographing those accomplishments with the hashtag manupformankind. [Mashable]

The influence of John Coltrane on artist Terry Adkins was profound. Jessica Slaven interviews Adkins before his sudden death this year. [Paper Monnument]

The Spanish artist Eugenio Merino will show a series of sculptures of dictator heads in refrigerators. The Franco Foundation is suing him for a second time for the first work in this series, which used a depiction of Generalísimo Franco’s head as a punching ball. [The Art Newspaper]

Can someone explain what’s happening with New Inc, the New Museum’s forthcoming “shared workspace and professional development program”? Please? [A Plea]

Even though the hum around Armory week seems subdued this year, visiting half-a-dozen-plus art fairs can in a few days’ time can feel like a week on a Eurail pass. Naive outsiders are treated harshly, the food is unfamiliar and overpriced, and you spend a lot of time snooping around taking pictures. It’s useful to have an index that you can depend on to guide you towards the things that are worth seeing and away from the things that aren’t. A guidebook if you will. Here’s ours.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Art Show, the quiet, but sophisticated upper east side fair hosted by the members-only Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). This year’s fair will welcome 72 galleries inside the vaulted walls of the Park Avenue Armory, and it will take place from March 6 – 10, 2013.